Johnny Azari

Home: New York, NY USA

Johnny Azari is a NY-based songwriter and performer who has opened for acts like Kiss, The New York Dolls, and Nouvelle Vague. He has written over 300 Rock, Blues, and Country songs, including "Freedom Glory Be Our Name," which became the anthem of Iran's Green Movement, and his "Occupation Blues" was listed as the #2 song of the Occupy Wall Street movement by The New York Observer. Johnny also scored the feature film "Windows," which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and he's worked with Grammy Award-winning producer David Kahn.

Johnny Azari is currently working on his debut solo record "From The Tropic Of Entropy," which is slated for release in March of 2013 and will be followed by an eight month national US tour. His previous bands include The Dirty Pearls and Electric Black. The Dirty Pearls were not only mentioned by Lady Gaga in her song "Heavy Metal Lover," but they also opened for acts such as Kiss, The New York Dolls, Bret Michaels, and Vince Neil. Electric Black has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, Huffington Post, The Brooklyn Vegan, and many other media outlets.

an ode to the artist who drives himself too far, buries himself in his own work, also for a character who blindly gets herself lost in a world she does not understand. great for scenes of a character overwhelmed by a world he cannot control but thinks he can. stubborn adherence to a failed idea, Male Vocals, Blues, Country Blues

love song, blues country ballad, bonnie and clyde romance, devotion to a femme fatale, perfect for tragic or doomed romance, love between an artist and his muse, lovers holding hands as the world burns around them, love as seen in natural born killers, romeo and juliette, fight club, Male Vocals, Blues, Country Blues

Bluesy slide steel guitar and melancholic male vocals set a tone of hopeless wandering with a seen-it-all attitude, theme for a jaded protagonist, driving through rainy fields, contemplating a night sky, bleeding out on the pavement after a bar brawl, with dylan-esque politics, Male Vocals, Blues, Country Blues

driving steel guitar and rhythmic vocals lament and glorify the life of a wandering or lost poet. theme for a character who rejects wealth and a system that tries to convince him to measure his worth in dollars. great for wide, searching, contemplative landcape pans, Male Vocals, Blues, Country Blues

foot-stomping ode to a sexy femme fatale, good for scenes of violent lust, wild woman, lovers' fighting and throwing dishes, also the murder of such a woman by her abused lover, pulpy, campy, steamy affair when the sex is too good for breaking up. the consequences of mistaking lust for love, Male Vocals, Blues, Country Blues

steel guitar and smokey vocals tell the story of a man literally facing the saints and the devil and choosing death. good for a character in a moral or existential crisis, suicide, desperately reaching for but never grasping happiness, slowly losing his mind or purpose, resignation, Male Vocals, Blues, Country Blues